Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 9, 2023

Inequality is pervasive in extracurricular activities, but how does it actually show up on college applications? Inequality was especially prominent in sports, where public school, Black, Asian American, and low-income students reported notably fewer leadership roles. When they are able to join, they often excel.

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Educause

APRIL 19, 2023

In addition to improving our individual DEI education and practices, it is essential that we begin tackling structural and systemic inequity to make progress toward more inclusive organizations.

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The post UPenn’s ‘Eidos’ Project Tackles LGBTQ+ Health Inequity, Discrimination appeared first on INSIGHT Into Diversity. “Even when the world is against us, we persevere, and that for me is the kind of story that I want health care to figure out and bottle,” Halem says. This article was published in our March 2023 issue.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The School of Health will largely focus on policy and public health concerns with an emphasis on addressing historical inequities and disparities in underrepresented communities. The post New Health Care Schools Open with Emphasis on Workforce Development, Addressing Inequities appeared first on INSIGHT Into Diversity.

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HEPI

MAY 11, 2023

This is where the importance of universities delivering on delivering high-quality skills as a means of both attracting investment, leveraging local and regional strengths and addressing regional inequalities comes in. Skills challenges also reflect and reinforce the UK’s economic inequality, which plays out across our regions.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The only way to understand what Disney World has become is to think about economic inequality. We saw people waiting in lines ranging from one to three hours. Disney helpfully posts the standby lane wait time.). Disney World is designed to optimize the experience of those that can afford the additional per-person payments.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 17, 2022

California community colleges have made progress in reducing remedial math course offerings, but inequities in access to credit-bearing courses persist, according to a new report by the California Acceleration Project, a faculty-driven effort to monitor and guide remedial education reform within the system. Hide by line?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 24, 2023

policies impact the lives of families living in poverty or facing inequality, shows that gender and race gaps in college enrollment are directly connected with academic preparation in high school.

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Insight Into Diversity

JULY 5, 2023

The post Incarcerated Paralegal Students Help Address Criminal Justice Inequities appeared first on INSIGHT Into Diversity. This article was published in our July/August 2023 issue.

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Inside Higher Ed

JULY 21, 2023

Today on the Academic Minute: Bryant Simon, professor of history at Temple University, looks to the past to examine why public bathrooms have long been marked by inequality.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 4, 2023

A new report from the Hope Center for College, Community and Justice at Temple University explores how students’ college experiences during the pandemic varied by race and ethnicity. The findings show that basic needs insecurities were highest among Indigenous, Native American and Black students at over 70 percent.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The Sorenson Impact Center at the University of Utah’s David Eccles School of Business recently launched a new tool intended to help campus leaders, policy makers and other higher ed stakeholders explore student outcomes data at individual campuses and identify racial and socioeconomic inequities. Hide by line?:

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Focus on the skills you’re helping students develop both inside and outside the classroom and how to make those experiences equally accessible for all students.”

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 5, 2023

Section: Academic Minute File: 01-05-23 American - Racial inequality, age, and COVID-19 mortality.mp3 Event's date: Wednesday, January 4, 2023 - 11:15am Insider only: Johnson is an associate professor in the School of Public Affairs at American. A transcript of this podcast can be found here.

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UW Presidential Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Part of what makes Black history such a compelling lens is the bravery and tenacity with which Black Americans have persevered to overcome staggering obstacles and oppression that were — and are — built into our nation’s systems and structures from its founding and continue to be a source of systemic inequity today.

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Higher Education Today

AUGUST 22, 2022

Read more » The post Racial and Ethnic Inequities in Higher Education Have Lasting Implications appeared first on Higher Education Today.

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Wonkhe

MARCH 30, 2023

For Sean Porter, sustainability and decolonisation should be connected to meet challenges associated with the climate emergency, inequality, and social justice. The post How to decolonise the sustainable development agenda appeared first on Wonkhe.

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MAY 16, 2023

Art’s Role in Fighting Gender Inequality: Academic Minute Doug Lederman Tue, 05/16/2023 - 03:00 AM

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Wonkhe

JUNE 13, 2023

As universities get to grips with a new access and participation regime, Elizabeth Garnham says that with commitment and collaboration inequality can be meaningfully addressed The post How to create an access and participation plan appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Higher Ed Dive

JANUARY 27, 2023

Evan Mandery attacks elite colleges' practices, from admissions inequities to socioeconomic stratification. This is the first of a two-part conversation.

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Higher Ed Dive

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The HBCU Transformation Project started last year to improve student outcomes and reverse historic funding inequities.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 20, 2023

To make matters worse, the most highly resourced campuses exacerbate institutional inequalities by absorbing a disproportionate share of government, philanthropic and foundation resources.

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Higher Ed Dive

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Two experts at the Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality outline ways to address growing racial and gender segregation by field of study.

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LSE Higher Education Blog

AUGUST 24, 2023

Recent government messaging on the value of university education fails to recognise how higher education adds value to society, argues Zoe Hope Bulaitis

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 5, 2023

Today on the Academic Minute : Lallen Johnson, associate professor in the School of Public Affairs at American University, examines why certain groups bear more of the brunt from disaster and epidemics. Learn more about the Academic Minute here. Is this diversity newsletter?: Hide by line?: Disable left side advertisement?:

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Wonkhe

JANUARY 18, 2023

Inequity in access to research funding drives disadvantage throughout academia. Tanita Casci and Jenny Gladstone see the need for action at every level The post Equitable research funding requires concerted action appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

States Underfunded Historically Black Land Grants by $13 Billion Over 3 Decades Katherine Knott Wed, 09/20/2023 - 03:00 AM The secretaries of agriculture and education have issued letters to 16 governors, urging them to rectify the inequities in funding. Byline(s) Katherine Knott

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University Business

JANUARY 18, 2024

The evidence stacked against standardized testing that suggests students’ testing performance is predicated on societal racial and socio inequities is significant. Opportunity Insights is not unaware of these possible inequities. Other disparities they mentioned were school quality and neighborhood exposure.

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HEPI

MARCH 5, 2024

Each has compelling examples of local, civic impact which are making communities better, reducing inequalities, delivering value for money and serving governments well in their policy agendas. Several local authorities also have access to free meals in breakfast clubs and during school holidays.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Institution will remove Edward Colston’s insignia from its logo and set up £10m racial inequalities fund The University of Bristol has decided against retitling its buildings that are named after people with links to the transatlantic slave trade, but has pledged £10m to help address racial inequalities over the next decade.

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Insight Into Diversity

APRIL 18, 2023

Historically Black college and university medical students engage in research and mentorship with Stanford University Medicine faculty as part of the school’s focus on racial health inequity. This is meant to ensure that graduates have direct experience and interest in addressing health care inequity.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Hannah-Jones spent her career investigating racial inequality and injustice, including as a staff writer at The New York Times Magazine. Her reporting earned her the MacArthur Fellowship, a Peabody Award, two George Polk Awards, and three National Magazine Awards.

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 20, 2024

By incorporating race into theoretical models — including datasets used for algorithm training — the lab seeks to advance understanding and address systemic inequities. Their work is grounded in understanding race as a social construct shaped by racism, with methodologies outlined for measuring and reporting race in research. The T.R.A.P.

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

APRIL 19, 2023

People around the globe are so dependent on the internet to exercise socio-economic human rights such as education, healthcare, work, and housing that online access must now be considered a basic human right, a new study reveals.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

JUNE 12, 2023

By Eric Hoover Harry Haysom for The Chronicle Race-conscious admissions programs were never an adequate remedy for the vast racial and socioeconomic inequities in higher education, a timely new report explains.

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SRHE

JANUARY 26, 2024

Of course, research which seeks to make inequalities more transparent has also focused on social class background, which does not feature as one of the nine characteristics outlined by the Equality Act 2010. She focuses on issues relating to social class, gender and wider social inequalities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

On average, white households have more than a 6 to 1 advantage over Black households in mean wealth ($980,549 to $142,330), leading to racial health inequity. Our findings add to the compelling moral case for reparations,” said Dr.

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